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Speaking to the Sky Sports News Transfer Talk podcast, Cook claimed that City targeted Terry in the summer of 2009 and offered a reported £200,000-a-week, five year contract to the then Chelsea captain.

However, Terry turned down the offer and signed a new five-year deal with Chelsea in August that summer.

Cook said: "We went through the process. Peter Kenyon was there at the time and we had conversations with him, saying we'd like to do it and we'd like to have a conversation."

"I think he was probably more confident that he [Terry] wasn't going anywhere.